windjammer

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The Grace Bailey is part of the state’s so-called windjammer fleet, a collection of sailing vessels that take people on excursions up and down the coast.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 9, 2023

The Oceanics School offered a journey of a lifetime that spring of 1972 on the Sea Cloud, a historic windjammer designed by heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post and hailed as the greatest sailing yacht ever built.

From Salon • Oct. 16, 2021

But the Avanti was a fast and durable vessel known as a windjammer, with what was in 1875 a state-of-the-art iron hull.

From New York Times • Aug. 24, 2016

But a Maine windjammer cruise seemed right up my alley.

From Washington Post

At the head of Miller Bay, beyond the mud flats, lived Captain Jonathan Soderland, who’d plied his decrepit windjammer, the C. S. Murphy, to the Arctic each year on trading expeditions.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson